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F. BELIBL. WASHING MACHINE.

No. 326,708, Patented Sept. 22, 1885.

WITNBSSES i INVBNTOR ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK BELIEL, OF HASTINGS, NEBRASKA.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,708, dated September 22, 1885.

Application led April 21, 1884. (Model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK BELIEL, of Hastings, in the county of Adams and State of Nebraska, have invented a new and Improved W'ashing-Machine, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to that class of wash-` ing-machines in Which a revolving cylindrical ribbed rubber revolves in a ribbed cylinder.

The invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure lis a longitudinal sectional elevation of my improved washing-machine. Fig. 2 is a broken plan view of the same, the cover being removed.

The tub is formed of two semicircular side pieces, A, to the curved edges of which the sheet-metal or wooden bottom B is secured. The tub is provided with legs C. The cover D is formed in a like manner, and is also made semicircular. W'ithin the tub and Within the cover a semicircula-r washing-board, E, is held, formed of wooden ribs or strips F, secured to metal strips G at their ends.

The two semicircular boards E are held in place within the cover and tub by the extended ends Fof the end strips, F. The ends F enter guideways H, formed on the inner faces of the end boards, A D, and these guide- Ways are provided with spiral springs I, that tend to press the ends of the semicircular boards E toward the central rubber, K. The curved boards E are held concentric with the curved sides of the tub and cover. The cylindrical rubber K has its shaft journaled in the top edges of the tub, and the shaft is provided at one end with a crank-handle, L. The rubber is provided on its outer surface with longitudinal ribs, as shown. The bottom of the tub is extended at one end to form a wringer-bracket, L. The water fiows from the wringer-bracket down the inclined bottom back into the tub. The clothes are placed in the space between the board E and the cylindrical rubber, and the latter is revolved and carries the clothes around, which clothes are rubbed by the ribbed boards E and the cylindrical rubber. rlhe boards E can yield or move outwardly slightly at the ends if the clothes are packed too tightly; but the springs I at all times press the ends of the boards E and the clothes toward the revolving rubber.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A washing-machine consisting, essentially, in the semicircular tub and cover hinged together, the two separate semicircular boards E, composed of the ribbed strips F, and the semicircular elastic strips G,. securing said strips F together, the upper semicircular board being in yielding connection at its corners with the end boards of the cover, and the lower semicircular board being yieldingly secured at its corners to the end boards of the tub, and a cylindrical ribbed rubber, K, journaled in bearings between adjacent edges of the end boards of the tub and cover, whereby when the cover is raised the upper board, E, will be raised and the rubber K may be removed or the clothes inserted or removed, substantially as set forth.

2. In a washing-machine, the casing consisting of the semicircular cover and tub, the ways H on the end boards thereof, the semicircular boards E, having the strips F, the end strips being extended to enter the guideways H, springs I within the guideWays and bearing against said ends, and the rubber K, having external ribs, substantially as set forth.

FRANK BELIEL.

Vit-nesses:

IsAAo LE DIoYT, HENRY WILSON. 

